[PD] FLOSS book Lists chapter

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Feb 19, 2011, at 9:50 PM, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:

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> --- On Sun, 2/20/11, Mathieu Bouchard <matju at artengine.ca> wrote:
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>> From: Mathieu Bouchard <matju at artengine.ca>
>> Subject: Re: [PD] FLOSS book Lists chapter
>> To: "Jonathan Wilkes" <jancsika at yahoo.com>
>> Cc: pd-list at iem.at
>> Date: Sunday, February 20, 2011, 1:40 AM
>> On Sat, 19 Feb 2011, Jonathan Wilkes
>> wrote:
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>>> I'll continue to argue if hc gives me some Pd examples
>> that back up his "95% bad" claim. But unless I'm missing a
>> "turn on segmented patch cords" checkbutton buried in a menu
>> somewhere, I believe this is the end of the argument.
>>
>> The claim has been used for a long time, to justify why pd
>> doesn't have this feature. Even though Pd doesn't have it,
>> MAX has it, and this is what people here refer to when they
>> talk about segmented patch cords (most of the time).
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> http://cycling74.com/docs/max5/vignettes/core/max_alphabetical.html
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> I started at the top, checked the help for all the objects under  
> "symbols"
> and "A".  Thirty-five help docs with 27 segmented patch cords, and
> _none_ of them are ambiguous.
>
> So what exactly are people referring to, other than some anecdotal
> evidence about some students somewhere who made some patches with some
> segmented patch cords that they thought looked bad?


http://cycling74.com/docs/max5/refpages/max-ref/logand.html
The patch on the right side would be clearer if the patch cords were  
straight lines, rather than having little corners near the inlet/ 
outlets.  To my eye, the horizontal cords merge with the horizontal  
lines of the object boxes.

http://cycling74.com/docs/max5/refpages/max-ref/accum.html
The feedback on the right side is the only time I think its good.  The  
left side, the cords start to less readable since they are only  
horizontal.  The direction of the cords to [2( and [4( does not point  
towards its destintation, but instead towards off screen.

http://cycling74.com/docs/max5/refpages/max-ref/atan.html
Again, the cords don't point towards their destintations.  That means  
you're eye has to trace the line to see where it goes rather than skim  
it.

.hc


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